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i'm assuming he pours a dram:)... tonight I've had Tröegs Flying Mouflan, Goose Island Fleur, Hoppin Frog Frost Frog Christmas Ale, Saint Somewhere Lectio Divina & now a Presidente Cerveza Tipo "Pilsener" from the Dominican Republic...truly awful...beyond words...

Mt. Dew... & for you New Yorkers...they're tapping CBS at Rattle 'n Hum in a little over an hour...not that I'm obsessed with this beer or anything:)...

had me for a split second... venti bold no room (blech) here...better than the stuff they make at work... hoping my bottle of Firestone Walker Abacus shows up today...ordered it then found a place that had it cheaper & w/o a bottle limit...kinda grumpy...

if you lot hadn't noticed, season 1 episode 7 is on the interwebs...it was aired on HBO Go (which I don't get even though I have HBO--they haven't yet inked a deal with TWC/Brighthouse)...anywho, hit up bittorrent if you wanna see it...best watched on a mobile or a laptop...

FFF Evil Power, FFF Blackheart (which finally hit Indy shelves)...& um...had some wild cherry Pepsi...heh...quiet night of tv watching... by the by...for all you Chicagoans...word on the street is that Goose Island Clybourn (not part of Anheuser-Goose) is going to tap Founders Canadian Breakfast at some point Wednesday... if you go by prior tappings in the area, it'll last < 1 hour... good news is, if you miss it, Founders plans to put it in 750mL bottles soonish:)...they've said that they'll release Blushing Monk first, but CBS could be next... cheers...

happy birthday!!...go have a beer...

no don't take it off...only drinkin' 'cuz i'm expectin' more:)... cheers... drinkin' a CCB Papaya IPA....yum...

that was on tap in my friend's garage until recently haha...a lot easier to get a state over... i'm having a Hellhound...had a Bolita Brown earlier...

enjoying the hell outta Dark Side...would be great paired with something salty...considering opening a tin of sardines...

they tweeted it as Life & Limb & Bitches Brew being tapped tonight...& i sent you a message:)...

they tapped bitches brew too... i'm killing that 12-pack of beer camp beers then who knows...

Sierra Nevada Best of Beer Camp Double IPA, Weizenbock, California Common & Juniper Black Ale...

Bell's The Oracle DIPA....love American Craft Beer Week...went from FFF/SK night at MacNiven's last night to Bell's night... Bell's Porter...from a fuckin' firkin...

pics'd just be rubbin' it in @ this point... FFF Cortez American Pale Ale...meh...kinda like a sparkling fruity wine left overnight... FFF Zombie Dust Citra Hop Pale Ale...that's more like it!...looking forward to bottles... Sun King Cupcake's Revenge Bourbon Barrel & Tart Cherry Aged Double Chocolate Stout...a lot going on here...all of it good:)... Sun King Wee Muckle Scottish Style Wee Heavy...basically their Wee Mac doubled...definitely approve of this... Sun King/FFF Three Kings American Pale Ale...as good as I remembered... FFF Arctic Panzer Wolf Giant IPA....splendid...I love what they do with IPAs... all on tap...long walk home...

Either... Or...

New Albanian Solidarity Baltic Porter...first time I've had it from a bottle...love me some Baltic Porter...

bolita brown...

see if you can spot me & my windblown hair...this should give you some idea of the sheer number of beers I tried that day in addition to some of what was on tap...there were many more tables...& lawn chairs...so many lawn chairs...

Cigar City Big Sound...lil' bit sweet, but good...now sleep...

just getting around to an inspection...that's most of what I acquired as a result of Dark Lord Day... 5 x Dark Lord 2011 1 x Surly Darkness 1 x Flossmoor Bourbon Barrel Aged Hi-Fi Rye 1 x Flossmoor Hi-Fi Rye 1 x Jester King Black Metal 1 x HalfAcre Big Hugs 1 x HalfAcre Marty Stouffer's Wild America 1 x The Bruery/Cigar City Marrón Acidifié 1 case of FFF Evil Power, 2 HalfAcre Daisy Cutters, 1 Cigar City Papaya IPA & 1 Surly Coffee Bender not pictured...

the Dark is quite good...these were batch 3...I think there are still some batch 2s out there in bigger bottles...very high abv....I'd sooner compare the two Dark batches if I had it to do over again...

& I opened up one of my Jackie O's Orange Oaks...superb...

over the weekend Sun King & Hoosier Beer Geek had another Tailgate for Nothing event... my buddy Ross was there sharing Colt 45 Blast!...I wish I could capture the correct color of that one...it's really something... I setup my little table with various Cigar City brews...that's Marron Acidifie (collab with The Bruery), Papaya IPA, Big Sound, Improvisacion, Vuja De & Sea Bass...then, later, we opened up a Bolita Brown... wish I had taken more pics whilst making the rounds...I had some Upland Dantalion, Balls Hop Extremecy, Flat12 Vanilla Porter, Alaskan Smoked Porter (yum), & a number of beers that'll probably come to me later... someone brought over a New Glarus Gueuze, Golden Ale & IIPA:)... I decided to stage a Nøgne Ø Horizon tasting...the consensus seemed to be the Dark was best followed by the Sweet then the Red...they're not really comparable, though...they vary from batch to batch & the Red uses sake yeast...

coffee...but just you wait...

more FFF Evil Power:)... & some Left Hand/Terrapin Oxymoron...a Teutonic India Pale Ale/Lager...frothy, malty & nice...